Amnesty International and 45 other organizations wrote a joint open letter to the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, to ask for his immediate action to end the threat of execution for more than 550 people currently living under sentence of death in California. The commutation of all death sentences in the US state with the highest number of people under sentence of death would not only significantly change the face of the death penalty in the USA; it would also send a strong signal internationally and help us advance the cause of abolition globally.
